Mundane Methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday (Volume I) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526139707 ISBN 13: 9781526139702

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Mundane Methods is an innovative and original collection which will make a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches it provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential. Divided into three key themes this volume explores methods for studying: materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion; with encounters, relationships, practices, spaces, temporalities and imaginaries cross-cutting throughout. In doing so, it draws on the work of a range of established and up-and-coming scholars researching the everyday, including human geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, urban planners, cartographers, and fashion historians. With empirical examples, practical tips, ethical considerations, and exercises.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Holmes is a Research Fellow in Sociology and the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester

Sarah Marie Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester

From the Back Cover

Researching the everyday is more important and significant now than ever before: beyond a fad or cultural currency, understanding the mundane is key to critical and conceptual social science. But what is the everyday, and how do we research it? Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches the collection provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential.

Outlining innovative and original methods for studying materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, Mundane Methods provides a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Collecting research from a range of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers a range of truly unique methods – from loitering, to smell-mapping, to memory work – which promise to embrace and retain the vitality of research into everyday life.

From the Inside Flap

Researching the everyday is more important and significant now than ever before: beyond a fad or cultural currency, understanding the mundane is key to critical and conceptual social science. But what is the everyday, and how do we research it? Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches the collection provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential.Outlining innovative and original methods for studying materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, Mundane Methods provides a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Collecting research from a range of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers a range of truly unique methods from loitering, to smell-mapping, to memory work which promise to embrace and retain the vitality of research into everyday life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526139707
• ISBN 13: 9781526139702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Holmes Helen, Hall Sarah Marie